Is the Friday prayer obligatory for one whose workplace is far from the mosque?
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The questioner:
Please, my brother Ahmad from Tabuk. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. Peace. May Allah keep you in good health, Shaykh. Shaykh, may Allah reward you with good, but please, we were outside. May Allah reward you with good. The military service is three months. Ahmad, turn down the television, turn down the television, Ahmad. We were not, we were not intending to pray the Friday prayer. Ahmad, turn down the television a little. Yes, please, please. Okay, but we do not want to pray the Friday prayer. May Allah reward you, Shaykh. Three months, he says, do you consider us stationed? They brought us a fatwa from Ibn Baz (may Allah have mercy on him). Is this a thing or not? Okay, thank you.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Yes, they work, Honorable Shaykh, in security, and they say we pray the Friday prayer in our locations, given that they are guarding, and also they work in security. Their Friday prayer, Honorable Shaykh, during this period of three months?
The Shaykh:
As long as they are far from the mosques, they pray it as Zuhr. They pray it at their workplace as Zuhr, and they do not pray it as Jumu'ah unless they have a mosque where Jumu'ah is established, in which case they pray it with the Muslims. But if they are in a place far from the mosques for the sake of their work, they pray it as Zuhr. Yes.
Please, my brother Ahmad from Tabuk. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. Peace. May Allah keep you in good health, Shaykh. Shaykh, may Allah reward you with good, but please, we were outside. May Allah reward you with good. The military service is three months. Ahmad, turn down the television, turn down the television, Ahmad. We were not, we were not intending to pray the Friday prayer. Ahmad, turn down the television a little. Yes, please, please. Okay, but we do not want to pray the Friday prayer. May Allah reward you, Shaykh. Three months, he says, do you consider us stationed? They brought us a fatwa from Ibn Baz (may Allah have mercy on him). Is this a thing or not? Okay, thank you.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Yes, they work, Honorable Shaykh, in security, and they say we pray the Friday prayer in our locations, given that they are guarding, and also they work in security. Their Friday prayer, Honorable Shaykh, during this period of three months?
The Shaykh:
As long as they are far from the mosques, they pray it as Zuhr. They pray it at their workplace as Zuhr, and they do not pray it as Jumu'ah unless they have a mosque where Jumu'ah is established, in which case they pray it with the Muslims. But if they are in a place far from the mosques for the sake of their work, they pray it as Zuhr. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل تجب الجمعة في حق من يبعد مقر عمله عن المسجد؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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